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I was just wondering how extensive the button mapping options are for the PC version of The Orange Box. I don't like using the keyboard to play games, but if I could hook up my PS2 controller, and have that in one hand and the mouse in the other, it might be worth a try.

What buttons are used on the keyboard, what does each button do, and do the button mapping option allow you to map forward, back, left, and right to a joystick?

Since I'd be using a PS2 controller, I'd have a single joystick and 3 main buttons(L1, L2, and LAnalogue) and of course the D pad could handle 4 buttons, provided they handled secondary features like pausing the game or switching weapons. All that would be in my left hand, and  my mouse has 4 buttons, scroll wheel, and scroll click that I would have in my right hand.

Has anyone already attempted a configuration like this? I had played thief: deadly shadows on gametap and that gave me options to adjust this. The only thing really holding me back from, at the very least, getting portal, is the idea that I'd have to use the keyboard.



Seppukuties is like LBP Lite, on crack. Play it already!

Currently wrapped up in: Half Life, Portal, and User Created Source Mods
Games I want: (Wii)Mario Kart, Okami, Bully, Conduit,  No More Heroes 2 (GC) Eternal Darkness, Killer7, (PS2) Ico, God of War1&2, Legacy of Kain: SR2&Defiance


My Prediction: Wii will be achieve 48% market share by the end of 2008, and will achieve 50% by the end of june of 09. Prediction Failed.

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